TALBOT4917

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Awdry ab^t Collen

9 Jan^y /44

Having conceded so much, I cannot make any further Concessions & therefore I have struck out the last clause in the Memorandum – being one which I have always declined from the beginning –

When first M^r C. applied to me for a License I stated that I would not consent to any such condition, and he (with that refusal in his hand) nevertheless decided upon taking the license. It is not as if the thing had been casually or carelessly overlooked; it was discussed at the time and declined.

I must also remark that when M^r C. says that he has taken nothing but portraits, I think this must be a mistake, since I recollect a statement appeared in the Newspapers that M^r C. had been employed by Government to execute a facsimile of the Chinese Treaty ¹ – I think a circumstance so interesting to me as The inventor of the art, might have been communicated to me at the time it occurred, but it never was.

I remain D^r Sir
Yours truly
H. F. Talbot

Please send copy of this to M^r Haslam. Supposing y^e con[illegible]no one, I sh^d still have wished